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arxiv 1611.04275 v1 pith:5UVFLXQV submitted 2016-11-14 hep-ph hep-lathep-th

Effective pion mass term and the trace anomaly

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Recently, we developed an effective theory of pions and a light dilatonic meson for gauge theories with spontaneously broken chiral symmetry that are close to the conformal window. The pion mass term in this effective theory depends on an exponent $y$. We derive the transformation properties under dilatations of the renormalized fermion mass, and use this to rederive $y=3-\gamma_m^*$, where $\gamma_m^*$ is fixed-point value of the mass anomalous dimension at the sill of the conformal window. This value for $y$ is consistent with the trace anomaly of the underlying near-conformal gauge theory.

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